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Official Number
1569 |
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Official Number
1569 |
The Pizarro was a ship built at Whitehaven by Lumley Kennedy & Co. She was launched on the 23rd May 1853 for John Bibby & Sons of Liverpool, the last new sailing vessel bought by this famous shipping company. Reportedly she cost £7,950, and her first voyage was to Valparaiso, Chile.
From The Cumberland Pacquet and Ware's Whitehaven Advertiser, Tuesday, 24th May 1853 :
" THE SHIP LAUNCH YESTERDAY - A very fine new clipper ship was launched yesterday forenoon from the yard of Messrs.Kennedy and Co., at this port. the tide was at its height about ten o'clock, and the extreme fineness of the weather encouraged vast multitudes, including a great number of ladies, to yield to the attraction of the occasion, and witness the imposing sight. About 11 o'clock, the signal was given, and the remaining support was knocked away, and amid the hearty cheers of five thousand voices, the noble vessel glided smoothly and gracefully into the element on which we trust she may achieve an eminent success. As she glided from the stocks she was named the Pizarro by the youngest daughter of Mr.Kennedy, with the usual time-honoured ceremmonial. She has been built for the Messrs.Bibby and Co., of Liverpool, for the west coast trade, and will be commanded by Captain Sprott. She measures 463 tons register, and will class 13 years at Lloyd's. She carries for a figure-head a bust of Pizarro, by Mr.Brooker, of Maryport, and has an elaborately carved stem, by Mr.Askew, of this town."The Pizarro was sold by Bibbys in 1857, to Myers & Co., also of Liverpool, and continued in the trade to South America. In 1870 she was sold to J.Robinson & Co. of Sunderland, and had disappeared from the shipping register by 1873.
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